Jointly invariant measures for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation

Abstract

We give an explicit description of the jointly invariant measures for the KPZ equation. These are couplings of Brownian motions with drift, and can be extended to a process defined for all drift parameters simultaneously. We term this process the KPZ horizon (KPZH). As a corollary of this description, we resolve a recent conjecture of Janjigian, and the second and third authors by showing the existence of a random, countably infinite dense set of directions at which the Busemann process of the KPZ equation is discontinuous. This signals instability and shows the failure of the one force--one solution principle and the existence of at least two extremal semi-infinite polymer measures in the exceptional directions. As the inverse temperature parameter $\beta$ for the KPZ equation goes to $\infty$, the KPZH converges to the stationary horizon (SH) first introduced by Busani, and studied further by Busani and the third and fourth authors. As $\beta \searrow 0$, the KPZH converges to a coupling of Brownian motions that differ by linear shifts, which is a jointly invariant measure for the Edwards-Wilkinson fixed point.

v3: accepted version. To appear in Probability Theory and Related Fields

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